Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-06-06

fusai OF the builders and contractors to &C.
cede to the nine hour system.
Alfred Canfield, James Cullen and Nor.
man Bell were killed in Norton's quarry,
Binnewater, Ulster county, N. Y, by a
premature blast, Saturday. Several others
were injured, one or more fatally.
Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune
has been ailing for several DAYS past with
typhoid fever. Saturday his physician stated
that he was rapidly convslescing, and had
passed safely over the most critical period.
Tommy Warren, the champion feather
weight of America, has accepted the chal-
lenge of Ike Weir, the Belfast spider and
champion festherweight Of Great Britain, to
fight tor $1,000 side and international cham
pionship.
Owen p. Reynolds, a laborer, ard Owen
Williams miner, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, were
caught in fall of rock and coal at the EN-.
pire mine Saturday afternoon. Reynolds
was crushed to death and Williams was ia.
tally injured
Gen. James S. Speed, who WAS attorney
general under President Lincoln, is danger
ously ill. The family and physicians state
that he can live but a few days longer. He
is almost so years of age, and is gradually
sinking from mere exhaustion.
man about 55 years old, supposed to be-
Herman Springhorn, travelling salesman
of l6 State street. Springfield, Mass, wa.
found dead in bed at the Summit house in the
Bowery, New York, Sunday forenoon, caused
by suffocation from escaping gas.
Robert Grau of Montreal, the theatrical
manager who was arrested on capias issued
by James Baxter, broker, which was after
ward quashed, seems to have pretty hard
luck, as Baxter has appealed the case, AMI
Grau has had to go back to prison.
Last night Lannie McAfee, of Minneapolis.
Mimi, a well known billiard expert, jumped
from the third story of his dwelling to the
pavement and was so badly injured that he
died in few hours. He had been sick and
accomplished the act while delirious.
The body of little Madelena Zorn of New
York, who was lost fortnight ago while at
tending picnic with her school mates at the
ruins of Fort George, was found Sunday af-
ternoon in the swamp at 260th street and IL tn
avenue near the place where last seen.
\ collision occurred on the Air Line rail
road in Edwardsville tunnel, five miles from
New Albany, Ind. Saturday noon, between
a construction tram and the west bouLd
extra freight Both engines were badly dam
aged. An engineer AMI brakeman were
fa...Iy laJured.
Two carloads of Texas ponies shipped from
Tex. to Eastern Pennsylvania and VI ssouri
to Bangor, Ne, were unloaded at Hartford
Conn, Friday. 1t is said they have been l3
dav- the ears without food. Several are
derd ard All are iu terrible emaciated con-
di.iJn. NJ driver is with them.
Lawrence Donovan. the American bridge
jumper. jumped from London bridge, in Eng.
land. saturday, mo the Thames He re-
fuerd 20 have collection taken up, saying
the jump was merely in honor of the Queens
jubilee. lie Intends to jump of the suspen-
slon brijge AT Bristol, the highest bridge in
England.
All IS hurry and hustle on board the train
ing ships Saratoga, jamestown and Ports
mon'n, lying at Newport, X L, sailing or
ders having been received Saturday evening.
The squadron sails Wednesday on summer
cruise in foreign waters. The vessels take
out fnll list of officers and crew for the
Quinnebaug, which will probably be found at
Lisbon.
The Internal machines received by Inspec-
tor Byrnes. Capt. Williams and the British
consul at New York on Thursday, were full
of cartridges manufactured in Troy, N. Y.
The cartridges are filed with mineral cotton
and are perfectly harmless. When saturated
with kerosene oil they are ignited and used
for kindlng fires. They were sent to them
as joke.
VIM. Murray, a saloon keeper of Chicago,
was arrested Saturday night charged with
being one of the gang of masked burglars
who broke into the house Of Allen Fairbanks
at Wheaton and by holding lighted matches
to the feet of the inmstes compelled the dis
closure of where $4,000 in government
bonds was concealed. Murray was safe un-
til day or two ago, when he tried to sell one
of the bonds.
1t now develops that VIM. Killam of Eek
ert, Ind, father-in-lsw of the Davis boys,
who we're lynched last week for assaulting
Miss Flanagan, was also hanged by the same
mob. The mob then went to the home of
the mother of the Davis boys whom they had
just lynched, and dragged away younger
son. His body cannot be found, but it is
supposed that he was likewise lyn ched, max
ing four victims.
Cardinal James Gibbons Of Baltimore, ar
rived at New York Saturday morning on the
Cunard steamer Umbria, and was enthusi e.
ticallv received and escorted up the bay by
committee of prominent Catholics. At the
foot of Twenty -sixth street the Cardinal was
more and driven to the residence Of Arch
bishop Corrigan. He refused TO be inter-
viewed by members of the press.
Mrs. Cheari Cignsrsle, the condemned
murdereress, was cheered Sunday by visit
from her little daughter, who was brought to
the Toombs by three sisters from st. Joseph's
home where she has been since her fathers
death. For three hours the child remained
with her mother and when they we're parted
their grief was terrible. With their arms
about each other they stood sobbing and
moaning until the sisters were compelled TO
separate them.
Herbert B. Dartin, seventeen years of age,
while in Chapel stree; shooting gallery in
New Haven, watching two unknown men
practice At the target, was accidentally shot
in the abdomen, receiving fatal wound.
The unknown men we're engaged in friend
ly contest but engaged ia q dispute over
shot made. One of them threw the weapon
he was using down heavily upon the counter
when it exploded. The dying man was re-
moved to the hospital, and the police are
looking for the man who did the shooting.
He left the gallery saying be vas going for
doctor. and has net been heard from sincs.